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Sandy Sugawara is a Maryland-based photographer and journalist. After the death of her parents, Sandy turned her attention West, focusing on themes of family and memories through landscape. She has been photographing the incarceration facilities where Japanese Americans, including her mom and dad, were locked up during World War 2, capturing the sadness, pain, hope, strength and the range of other emotions present at these sites. Her photographs are held in public and private collections, and her work has appeared in a number of juried exhibitions around the country.